Mexico Targeting Almost $23 Billion in Water, Aqueduct Projects

Mexico will spend as much as 300 billion pesos ($22.9 billion) through 2018 on water works including dams, drainage tunnels, wastewater treatment and desalination plants.

The northern city of Monterrey will get an aqueduct eventually stretching 520 kilometers, David Korenfeld, head of the National Water Commission, said last month. An expansion plan for the Cutzamala system that supplies Mexico City with water calls for a 70-kilometer aqueduct.